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[Peter Richardson]

I'm barging in in the midst of a discussion here and don't know what's
preceded this posting. But I remember a good, stout fence in the Arkansas
Ozarks in the early '60s as "horse-high, bull-strong, pig-tight, and
goose-proof."

Peter Richardson


On 12/27/13 11:19 AM, "Mullins, Bill CIV (US)"
<william.d.mullins18.civ at MAIL.MIL> wrote:

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> Ben took "X Strong" back to 2004 with Lance Armstrong's "Livestrong".  I
> distinctly remember a line from the 1974 "Planet of the Apes" TV show.
> A human astronaut is helping an ape improve his farm's productivity.  He
> shows the ape how to build a better wooden corral fence.  He builds one
> and says that it is "lock tight and bull strong."  From Wikipedia, it
> would appear to have been the episode "The Good Seeds", which was aired
> Oct 4, 1974.
>
> Funny what one remembers from 39 years ago.
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>> There was an ADS mailing lis thread on "X Strong" in May 2013. Ben
>> wrote up a nice analysis in the Boston Globe and Visual Thesarus:
>>
>>> Date: May 18, 2013
>>> Poster:  Ben Zimmer
>>> Subject:      Re: "Boston Strong"
>>> I wrote a column for the Boston Globe, and a Word Routes followup,
> on
>>> "Boston Strong" and its predecessors:
>>>
>>> http://b.globe.com/strongbz
>>> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/an-army-of-strong-
>> slogans
>>> /
>>>
>>> Thanks to Hugo and the other participants in this thread for their
>>> contributions.
>>>
>>> --bgz
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>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Laurence Horn
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>>> On Dec 26, 2013, at 4:56 PM, David Barnhart wrote:
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>>>> From the earlier part of 2013: _strong_ applied to the aftermath of
>> a
>>>> tragedy.  (e.g. Boston strong)
>>>
>>> When did this start?  ABC World News with Diane Sawyer has been
>> running an occasional segment for ages (well before Boston Strong)
>> called "America Strong", without any specific aftermath of tragedy
> that
>> I can think of (it didn't go back nearly as far as 9/11, for example).
>> It has more to do with creating jobs in the U.S., buying American,
>> avoiding imports, etc.  Well, I suppose you could claim that it's in
>> the aftermath of the tragedy of the financial meltdown, but they don't
>> make that explicit.
>>>
>>> LH
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> barnhart at highlands.com
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